Sunday October 25th, 2009: Alan Rhody + David Nigel Lloyd - The heart of America meets the Celtic edge

$20/18

Alan Rhody is one of today's most respected solo acoustic artists in that great expanse known as the singer-songwriter. With multiple Platinum & Gold records among many other awards under his belt “He has earned a level of respect and recognition that places him in the vanguard of pioneers of the contemporary roots music movement.” ~ Toronto Star
David Nigel Lloyd, Celtic balladeer, song poet, tale spinner, fine guitarist, fool & scholar. Accompanying himself on an eight-stringed octar (a mongrel mandocello-like instrument), on a steel-stringed guitar with a unique drop-tuning; and on a nylon string guitar tuned regularly, DNL sings of pumpkin kings, fairy queens, ancient Irish warriors loosed upon dusty oil towns, East African juju men, idiot presidents, divine drunkards, wanderers and prisoners both great and small. In between he regales his audience with odd bits of erudition, shaggy biography, and the occasional surreal folk tale.